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What's up on campus

By TIMES WIRES
Published March 7, 2007

Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. The Times lists these events in an occasional column. All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Send information at least two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.

Eckerd College

4200 54th Ave. S

St. Petersburg, 864-7979

The Academy Award-nominated film Babel will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday at Miller Auditorium. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film tells four interconnected stories set in Morocco, America, Mexico and Japan. Subtitled.

The Fourth Annual Triton 5K Run will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday on the Eckerd College campus. Registration will be from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. A fee of $25 includes a hot breakfast served after the race. Breakfast for nonparticipants is $10. Call 864-8875.

Musicians Vladimir Khokhlov, Serge Boldireff, Vladislav Markov and Andre Cheine will present Russian Poetry and Classical Russian Music at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lewis House. After the program, the audience can join a group singing of Russian music. Call 867-9148.

Donna Oglesby, diplomat-in-residence at Eckerd College, will speak on the Politics of Identity in a Global Context at 7 p.m. Monday at Lewis House. Oglesby served in cultural and public diplomacy for more than 25 years, most recently as counselor of the agency with the United States Information Agency. This is part of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College 25th Anniversary Public Forum Series.

Easy Street, a documentary about St. Petersburg's chronically homeless, will be shown at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Miller Auditorium. There will be a discussion after the film with filmmakers Stephen Ashton and Andrew Lee.

Marie Studer, chief science officer at Earthwatch Institute, will speak on Integrating Social Questions into Ecological Research at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Miller Auditorium. Earthwatch is a nonprofit organization that recruits volunteers to assist scientific field research teams around the world.

Stetson University College of Law

1401 61st St. S

Gulfport

Law professor Richard Graves will present If It Is Too Good To Be True: Scams Old, New and Internet at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Eleazer Courtroom. This is part of a continuing series of consumer fraud seminars for local seniors at Stetson University. A shuttle to the event will be available from the parking lot at 61st Street S and 15th Avenue S. Call 562-7800, ext. 7715.

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